First you need the vmware tools tar from the cd image. This is found at /media/cdrom once you've run "install vmware tools" from the server console. When I did this the CD didn't seem to be available even though it looked like it had mounted correctly. To…
Upgrading your parallels image to try out feisty really couldn't be easier. Simply clone the disk image you already have of Edgy and rename it so know what it is. I followed the second set of instructions found at ubuntugeeks.com First you need to update your /etc/apt/sources.…
As Ubuntu Edgy has not long been released I thought I would see how it runs on parallels desktop for mac. I downloaded the standard .iso and followed pretty much the same instructions as when I installed Ubuntu Dapper. The install go stuck at the end and I couldn't seem…
Installing Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake under Parallels Desktop is really easy to do so here's a few pointers how to do it and to customise it to be easier to use via the mac keyboard: The installation Download the Desktop CD .iso image from the Ubuntu Downloads site Create…
I decided to check out Breezy Badger the latest version of Ubuntu linux. First I thought I would try the in place upgrade from Hoary to Breezy by altering /etc/apt/sources.list to the Breezy repositories and then running sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. First all seemed…
Strange things were afoot this evening when I switched on my laptop. Ubuntu did the intermittant "HAL could not be initialized" error first of all. A quick reboot and everything seemed ok for a couple of minutes. The update indicator was red so I though I ought to do a…
XP Pro started giving me grief on my laptop with a blue screen every time I booted it up, which seemed to relate to the wireless card. So to fix the problem I installed Ubuntu Linux, problem solved! Installation is text based, and I found that was the only thing…